Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
The rape thing with Kobe was very hard to figure out.
There are a lot of reasons to believe that Kobe was indeed a rapist, and also a lot of reasons to believe that the story was exaggerated or BS.
If forced to take a guess about the situation, I think the girl went up to the room with Kobe with the belief they were going to fuck. However, as they were about to do the deed, Kobe got too aggressive and wanted to do it too rough, and suddenly she wanted out. Then Kobe thought "Screw this, I'm not stopping now", and went through with it anyway.
This is still very bad, obviously, but not as bad as if she just went to the room with him to hang out, and he grabbed her and raped her. And of course, this is just my guess.
There was the weird (and gross) matter of another man's semen being in her underwear, which meant she either rarely washed her underwear, or she had banged another guy the same day.
Something bad probably happened in that room, but Kobe was fortunate that the accuser seemed to have her own issues, and probably wasn't telling the whole truth.